Several organizations have launched their appeals to Montreal Jewry for funds. The Laurentian Fresh Air Camp. which was organized a few years ago and which provides for summer holidays for indigent mothers and their young children, has launched a building fund campaign for $25,000. It plans to build a permanent modern summer rest home in the Laurentian mountains which will be ready for this spring. The camp has the support and cooperation of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies in Montreal, which has long been in need of such an institution, but due to its limited budget has been unable to realine this object.
March 24th will see the inauguration in Moutreal of the Dominion-wide United Palestine Appeal campaign by the Zionist Organization of Canada, with Coloned Frederick H. Kisch as the guest speaker. Rabbi Dr. Herman Abra(##), of the Shaar Hoshoreagiun Synagogue, has been appointed Montreal chairman for the U. P. A. campaign here.
David Piuski, the well-known dramatist, will open the local campaign for Jewish Labor in Palestine, under the enspites of the Poale Zion Organization, on March 6th.
At the recent election of officers of the Independent Order B’nai B’rith. Mount Royal Lodge. No. 729. the following were efected for the year 1929: Edward Barkof , president; Philip Meyeronitch 1st vice-president; Lyon P. Stream and vice-president; Jacob Cohen, treasurer; L. S. Eidieger secretary; Lionef J. Conviensky, monitor; Harry Bronfman, Joseph Guttman and Harry H. Tarshis, trustees; Harry H. Livinson, assistant monitor; C. 1. Finklestein, warden, and Max S. Toker, guardian. Samuel L. Caplan is the executive secretary for this year and the general committee consists of J. B. Becker, J. E. Kindestin, S. W. Decker, Sol Vineberg and Harry Rosenbaum.
Announcement has been made that Harvey Golden, who has been on the staff of lecturers at the Shaar Hashomayim Synagogue College for Jewish Studies, has been appointed as Educational Director of the Young Men’s Hebrew Association, which will shortly take up its headquarters in the new building made possible by a gift of the late Sir Mortimer B. Davis.
Clarence Michaels was elected chairman of the Business Men’s Council of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of Montreal at their annual meeting held at the Montefiore Club.
Issachar Greenberg, reeiring chairman, in presenting his annual report for the year, stated that the annual drive resulted in a surplus of $23,835 over the $260,000 objective.
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